The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-11-21


been deemed 9nbpdotsoable, ii gsveF
failed TO come into practice after a
few months. Examples; my arte-
sian we'll was impracticable and |
was lunatic to think of it, and yet
there are now over 200 such wells
around Honolulu; the admission of
Hawaii in the Postal Union was i'm
practicable, and yet now this King
dom has the same postal advantages
as all other countries; the electric
light was impracticable, and fellow
who wanted to impose on this COM
munity an outrageous scheme of gaz
light privilege, said l had electricity
on the brain, and yet / see the poles
in all our streets.
But without any further examples
though / could bring many more
out, let us come to the impracti-
bility of my immigration proposition.
/ say that no more immigration
ought to be undertaken by this Gov
eminent, with public moneys, ex-
cept for bona Gde settlers, and the
only way Of procuring these is by
giving them land, to attach them TO
the country.
The answer has been that the lands
are not here, that they are not sin
exhaustible" enough to face such a
scheme, etc, etc.
Now it is very easy to brand a
dog as hydrophobe, without going
into the trouble of seeing whether
he is mad or not. But allow me, on
this hobby of mine-more population
for this kingdom-to appeal to the
cold authority of figures.
Let us suppose we wanted to bring
here 10000, or better say 10000
families, which is comparatively
enormous, since 10000 families
would, in medium represent $4,000
people, or as much again rs the
whole present population of the
islands.
Now, how much land would be
required to settle these people? If
you ask the Portuguese already
here, they would only be too glad of
getting one acre, a good many being
more than satisfied in obtaining half
an acre. Well, say now that we
want to be as generous as the limit
ed resources of the country will al
low and that we give to each settler
or family, double what the Portu-
guese desire of arabic land, say two
acres.
For 20, 900 settlers we shall thus
want 100000 acres. Is this such
an extraordinary amount of land?
and could not this amount be found
on the surface of these islands,
which comprise total of 4,000,00O
of acres?
Here l shall go step farther and
say that even if the Government
could not have in its power the dis
posal of 10000 acres of good lands
for doubling our population, it
would be to its advantage and to the
advantage of us all, now living here,
for public money to be employed in
buying up those 40, 900 acres, so as
to be able to give them to 10000
new corners with families.
OF course | know that some of my
kind opponents, who growl at all my
suggestions, will say that 2 acres
will not be enough to support
family. So much the better. The
man who receives present of 2
acres to establish his family on, will
only be too glad of working with a
vengeancet to help his family through,
and will be found the best help the
planters need.
Ank if any doubt are still enter
tanned, let the Government try the
suggestion on as small a scale as
desired. Let them bring in 900
white families only, which will require
only 1000 acres, not an ineXhaust-
ible area, which the Govern
ment could surely dispose of. If
this trial succeeds, then will be the
time to see how to procure the other
lands.
Now if any man says that
scheme of this nature is impractic-
able, then let him say at once what
he is driving at. Let him say that
he does not want population here,
that he only want two classes, the
rich and poor, the planter and the
coolie.. But on the other hand, ask
our store keepers, artisans, me-
chanics, of every class, what the doub-
ling the population with people who
will buy and spend-would mean to
them and to their commerce or
work, ask them if such result
would not be worth the giving away
of twenty or forty thousand acres,
and then we shall hear what they
think and say about it. 1t is to
their practical good sense / appeal.